MOSCOW, April 22. /TASS/. The ceasefire is being observed very badly in Khartoum, Russian Ambassador to Sudan Andrey Chernovol told TASS on Saturday.

"The fact is that the ceasefire in Khartoum is being respected very poorly. In general, the situation is definitely better that it was in the first days of the conflict. Along with this, some air raids and exchanges of gunfire can be heard across the city," he said.

On Friday evening, the Sudanese army pledged readiness for a three-day humanitarian truce in the country. On Thursday, its opposing Rapid Support Forces announced that they had agreed to a ceasefire for the Muslim holiday Eid al-Fitr.

The situation in Sudan escalated after disagreements between Sudan’s army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, who also chairs Sudan’s Sovereign Council, and Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo (known as Hemedti), his deputy in that council and the chief of Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces. On April 15, clashes erupted between the two forces near the Merowe military base and in the capital of Khartoum. According to the latest figures from the health ministry, more than 600 people have been killed in the hostilities. The Sudan doctors’ committee reported that almost 200 civilians have been killed, with more than 1,000 injured and another 3,300 forced to flee their homes.